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Primary Races Decided

August 27th, 2014 by flanews

Florida’s primary elections are in the books, and as Matt Galka tells us, even though voter turnout was lacking, there’s still a shot at history.

An uneventful Primary Election Day allowed the Secretary of State to crack a joke.

“I had a little dinner and I opened my fortune cookie, it said remember three months from this date, good things are in store for you, so I’m feeling good about the November election,” said Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner.

Voting problems were minor. Even thought it was quiet, the election could still be historic.

“We may have seen a record number of absentee ballots cast and combined with early voting, and absentee ballots cast, may have surpassed election day voting,” said Detzner.

Rick Scott and Charlie Crist will officially square off to decide Florida’s Governor. The only other high profile race to be decided was between two Democrats who were gunning for a chance to unseat Pam Bondi and become the next attorney general. George Sheldon got the nod over State Representative Perry Thurston. Sheldon says the party is still united.

“I think the first job is pull the party back together, but to be honest with you, the party is together,” said Sheldon at his victory party.

The results kick off a brand new campaign season starting tomorrow leading up to November’s election. Democrats will start a unity tour later this week.  And you can expect to see even more attack ads from both sides over the next two months.

State officials were hoping for a 21% voter turnout rate…but didn’t sound optimistic about hitting that number.

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